Word: stanley
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...bubble burst, and the stocks went south, and the commission-taking investment bankers seemed like the only ones who'd gotten permanently rich. Wall Street watchers felt betrayed. Congress started sniffing around. FORTUNE (corporate cousin to this publication) ran a cover with a decidedly unflattering picture of Morgan Stanley interent analyst Mary Meeker, the most spectacularly fallen of the analyst stars, above the caption "Can We Ever Trust Wall Street Again...
...Stanley Crouch's latest book is Don't the Moon Look Lonesome: A Novel of Blues and Swing
WASHINGTON—When not drinking on the weekends, my housemates and I frequently watch movies to pass the time. This past weekend, we saw Stanley Kubrick’s dark comedy masterpiece Dr. Strangelove (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb) and Mike Judge’s cult classic about the American workplace, Office Space. I still can’t decide which one was more enjoyable...
...Moderated by KSG Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr., the panel also included Stanley Fischer, first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Allan Meltzer, the former chair to the International Financial Institution Advisory Commission to the U.S. Congress and Brad DeLong and Barry Eichengreen, University of California-Berkeley economists...
...short-lived, thanks to recent Federal Reserve rate cuts and rebate checks of up to $600 a household that families can expect by September, compliments of last month's $1.35 trillion, 10-year tax cut. (Singles without kids will receive about $300.) Richard Berner, chief U.S. economist for Morgan Stanley, says that while a recession may have got under way in the spring, the rebates should underwrite modest growth by this fall. (A recession is commonly viewed as two consecutive quarters of shrinking GDP.) Says Berner: "It's likely to be the shortest and mildest [contraction] on record...